In addition to covering the "detective" fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, this collection of British and American crime fiction considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. Ranging over the last three centuries, it includes chapters on the analysis of crime in eighteenth-century literature; French and Victorian fiction; women and black detectives; crime on film and TV; and police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form.
In this 2007 work, Goldberg argues that Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge - the ‘Lake school’ - aligned themselves with emerging constructions of the ‘professional gentleman’ that challenged the vocational practices of late eighteenth-century British culture.
English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
This work provides a detailed account of word level pronunciation in England and Scotland between 1700 and 1900. The materials are presented in three chronological periods: 1700-1750, 1750-1800 and the nineteenth century, allowing readers to see the main characteristics of the pronunciation in each period, and also to compare developments from one period to another, thus identifying ongoing changes to the phonology.
The Victorian Eighteenth Century: An Intelectual History
The Victorians were preoccupied by the eighteenth century. It was central to many nineteenth-century debates, particularly those concerning the place of history and religion in national life. This book explores the diverse responses of key Victorian writers and thinkers, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman,... to a period which commanded their interest throughout the Victorian era.
